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Man and woman in swimsuits, c. 1910; she is exiting a bathing machine Annette Kellerman, early 1900s, in swimwear which she wore when arrested for public indecency In the United States, indecent exposure refers to conduct undertaken in a non-private or (in some jurisdictions) publicly viewable location, which is deemed indecent in nature, such as nudity, masturbation or sexual intercourse. [1]
Indecent exposure is the deliberate public exposure by a person of a portion of their body in a manner contrary to local standards of appropriate behavior. Laws and social attitudes regarding indecent exposure vary significantly in different countries.
Indecency in TV and radio broadcasting had already been regulated by the Federal Communications Commission: broadcasting of offensive speech was restricted to hours of the day when minors were supposedly least likely to be exposed, and violators could be fined and lose their licenses.
Outraging public decency is a common law offence in England and Wales, [1] Hong Kong [2] and the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. [ 3 ] : 42 It is punishable by unlimited imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. [ 1 ]
The minimum penalty is an organ punishment order , which is less than a violation of decency as defined by a disruption of public order . In both Vienna and Graz young men belched or farted loudly in the presence of police officers and were fined €70 and €50 respectively.
Views on public morality do change over time. Public views on which things are acceptable often move towards wider tolerance. Rapid shifts the other way are often characterised by moral panics, as in the shutting down of theatres a generation after Shakespeare's death by the English Puritans. It may also be applied to the morals of public life.
At the time, the Human Passions relief by Jef Lambeaux was deemed indecent. [citation needed] Inappropriateness refers to standards or ethics that are typically viewed as being negative in a society. [1] It differs from things that are illicit in that inappropriate behavior does not necessarily have any accompanying legal ramifications. [2]
The legal definition of the term varies greatly across jurisdictions, and has evolved significantly over time, reflective of current moral values as they relate to sexuality. For example, in 1896, lascivious cohabitation referred to the now-archaic crime of living with a member of the opposite sex and having premarital sex with him or her. [ 1 ]